Fayetteville Public Library\, the Arkansas International and the University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing &\; Translation have joined to host acclaimed poet Maggie Smith will pr esent a free\, public reading of her works and answer audience questions.< /p>\n
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\nMaggie Smith is the author of Good Bones\, \;The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison\,& nbsp\;Lamp of the Body and the national bestseller \;Keep Mov ing: Notes on Loss\, Creativity\, and Change. Her latest collection o f poems\, Goldenrod\, was released in July 2021. Smith&rsquo\;s p oems and essays are widely published and anthologized\, appearing in B est American Poetry\, \;The New York Times\, \;T he New Yorker\, \;The Paris Review\, \;Ploughsha res\, \;The Washington Post\, \;The Guardian \;and elsewhere. In 2016 her poem Good Bones went viral int ernationally and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. Public Radio International called it &ldquo\;the official poem of 2016.&rdquo\;< /p>\n
For 50 years\, the Program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas has served as a training ground for some of the nation&rsquo\;s best writers. It ranks in the top 40 MFA programs nationw ide\, according to Poets &\; Writers magazine. The Atlantic Monthly nam ed it among the &ldquo\;Top Five Most Innovative&rdquo\; MFA programs in t he country.
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